ASCII

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The meme suggests ASCII, a method of rendering characters using either seven or eight binary digits.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2013

Baudot’s code developed the principle that eventually became the basis for ASCII, or the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which is the way in which nearly every computer and phone now represents text.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2012

The etexts, later called ebooks, were stored in the simplest way, using the low set of ASCII, called Plain Vanilla ASCII, for them to be read on any hardware and software.

From Project Gutenberg 4 July 1971 - 4 July 2011: Album by Lebert, Marie

To deal with these within the limits of plain vanilla ASCII, I have done the following in this E-text.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

I know it's a bone of contention, but we probably need to explore moving away from ASCII.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim